<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Yeah, reading the 2 primary claims, I can't believe this patent could possibly stand up to a challenge. It attempts to claim any 2-or-more player video game or world, with players on different computers. Supposedly the examiner compared it to a list of a hundred similar patents and found some difference. <br>
<br></div>Just looking at Minecraft should have been enough to toss it out, let alone Second Life and Open Sim.<br><br></div>I'm not a patent attorney, but I do have one patent and read quite a bit when I applied for it and went through all that. This one is fluff. There's been a lot of fluff lately.<br>
<br></div>The first time they try to sue anyone for infringement they'll find out. Or maybe they hope they'll get $10,000 per client to just "go away."<br><br></div>First impression though, is that the patent examiner should be fired.<br>
<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:09 PM, BoneZ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bonez@dogzhouse.com" target="_blank">bonez@dogzhouse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This seems to include many aspects of what opensim already does....<br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/patents/US8621368?dq=new+world+studio+patent&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WCGiU66BGcTvoAS7sYHQDw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/<u></u>patents/US8621368?dq=new+<u></u>world+studio+patent&hl=en&sa=<u></u>X&ei=WCGiU66BGcTvoAS7sYHQDw&<u></u>ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg</a><br>
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Anyone know anything about this??<br>
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